U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (not pictured) implicit luncheon successful the Cabinet Room astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 17, 2025.
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The 2 survivors of an American subject onslaught connected a suspected drug-carrying vas successful the Caribbean volition beryllium sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their location countries, President Donald Trump said Saturday.
The subject rescued the brace aft striking a submersible vas Thursday, successful what was astatine slightest the sixth specified onslaught since aboriginal September.
"It was my large grant to destruct a precise ample DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States connected a good known narcotrafficking transit route," Trump said successful a societal media post. "U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vas was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and different amerciable narcotics."
The Republican president said 2 radical connected committee were killed — 1 much than was antecedently reported — and the 2 who survived are being sent to their location countries "for detention and prosecution."
The repatriation avoids questions for the Trump medication astir what the ineligible presumption of the 2 would person been successful the U.S. justness system.
With Trump's confirmation connected his Truth Social level of the decease toll, that means U.S. subject enactment against vessels successful the portion person killed astatine slightest 29 people.
The president has justified the strikes by asserting that the United States is engaged successful an "armed conflict" with cause cartels. He is relying connected the aforesaid ineligible authorization utilized by the George W. Bush medication erstwhile it declared a warfare connected coercion aft the Sept. 11 attacks and is treating the suspected traffickers arsenic if they were force soldiers successful a accepted war.
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